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Publishing History

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Subjects
American Detective and mystery stories, Fiction, American fiction, History and criticism, Detective and mystery stories, Detective and mystery stories, history and criticism, Noir fiction, American, Film noir, Detective and mystery stories, American, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, American Short stories, American fiction, history and criticism, 20th century, Crime, Crime in literature, Criticism and interpretation, Short stories, History, Detective and mystery films, In literature, Film adaptations
Places
United States, California, Florida, Los Angeles (Calif.), New Jersey, New York (State), Philadelphia (Pa.), Seattle (Wash.), Texas, Boston (Mass.), Brooklyn (New York, N.Y.), Buffalo, Buffalo (N.Y.), Calif.) Hollywood (Los Angeles, Cape Cod (Mass.), Connecticut, Dallas, Dallas (Tex.), Estados Unidos, Germany
People
Raymond Chandler (1888-1959), Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961), Ross Macdonald (1915-), James M. Cain (1892-1977), Cornell Woolrich (1903-1968), Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961), Horace McCoy (1897-1955), James Ellroy (1948-), Jörg Fauser (1944-), Max Brand (1892-1944)
Times
20th century, 21st century, 1930s, 1970-1990, 19th century, 20e siècle

Prolific Authors

who have written the most books on this subject
S. J. Rozan, 4 books
Joyce Carol Oates, 4 books
Megan E. Abbott, 3 books
Otto Penzler, 3 books
Lawrence Block, 3 books
Julie Smith, 3 books
Gary Phillips, 3 books
Denise Hamilton, 2 books
Jonathan Santlofer, 2 books
Curt Colbert, 2 books
Martin H. Greenberg, 2 books
Cornell Woolrich, 2 books
Dennis Lehane, 2 books
George P. Pelecanos, 2 books
Edward Gorman, 2 books
Nelson George, 2 books
Tim McLoughlin, 2 books
Peter Maravelis, 2 books
Julie Schaper, 2 books
Robert E. Skinner, 2 books
Laura Lippman, 2 books
Woody Haut, 2 books
Kevin Johnson, 2 books
James M. Cain, 2 books
Todd Robinson, 2 books